When young people started mobilising online against Togo’s president, the state switched off the internet. In the week that followed, people talked more, worked harder and had less sex – all of which proved bad news for the government

Photojournalist Chris de Bode visits Burundi, Central African Republic and Niger to hear how simple interventions are helping communities to cope with malnutrition brought about by conflict and climate change

After decades of conflict, Iraq has been left littered with unexploded booby-traps. These images show members of the organisation at work, and the people whose lives have been touched and transformed by their efforts

For a while it looked as if a plan to turn fruit waste into electricity might bring light for a giant Nigerian market – but then, like so many other power plans, nothing happened. When will renewables really come on line?